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More than 1,100 companies of German- speaking countries have subsidiaries in the U.S. More than 750 U.S. companies do business in Germany. Knowledge of German\u00a0improves your CHANCES in the job market, both with many German companies abroad and with foreign companies in German-speaking countries and in the European Union.<br \/>\n3.\u00a0Study for free\u00a0in Germany!! No tuition for international students with the German skills to take university- level classes in German.<br \/>\n4. Speaking German improves\u00a0BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS\u00a0with partners in Germany, the FOURTH LARGEST INDUSTRIAL NATION and one of the most important exporting countries in the world.<br \/>\n5.\u00a0Germany is the most important\u00a0TRADING PARTNER\u00a0for almost all European and many non-European partners. Germany is the largest MARKET in Europe.<br \/>\n6. Germans spend the most on\u00a0TOURISM\u00a0worldwide, and the U.S. is their first travel destination overseas.<br \/>\n7. 114 Germans were awarded the Noble prize &#8211; 22 Austrians and 27 Swiss also received the Noble Prize<br \/>\n8.\u00a0German is the\u00a0SECOND\u00a0most used language for scholarly publications worldwide. German is important for\u00a0SCIENTISTS AND STUDENTS.\u00a040% of scientists in the U.S.A. recommend the study of German.<br \/>\n9. Language that is excellent preparation for\u00a0TRAVELLING\u00a0to Europe: 38% of European citizens say they can converse in German.<br \/>\n10. More than 2,000\u00a0SCHOLARSHIPS AND GRANTS\u00a0are awarded to U.S. citizens every year by the Goethe-Institut, the German Academic Exchange Service, and other institutions and foundations.<br \/>\n11. \u00a0German is one of the ten most spoken languages in the world. Do not asume that all Germans speak English or feel comfortable using English in conversation.<br \/>\n12. Think of German engineering and inventions! Cars, Airbags, Helicopters, X-Rays, Contact Lenses, MP3, the Bicycle, Diesel Engine etc.\u00a0&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Germany has the second highest number of engineering workers among all employees in the EU.<br \/>\n13.\u00a0Switzerland for example ranks #1 in patent applications per capita in the EU and Germany #6 in the world.<br \/>\n14. Germany is of course known as the land of thinkers, writers, artists, musicians, film makers and philosophers. You have a who is who list of so many famous contributors to western civilzation it is hard to know where to start:\u00a0&lt;\/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Fritz Lang, Otto Hahn, Karl Marx, Amalie Emmy Noether, Otto Lilienthal,\u00a0Martin Heidegger, Rainer Werner Fa\u00dfbinder, Chrita Wolf, Gerhard Richter, Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Clara Schumann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hans Zimmer, Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Rosa Luxemburg, Werner Heisenberg, Immanuel Kant, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Sophie Scholl, Gottlieb Daimler,\u00a0Joseph Beuys, K\u00e4the Kollwitz, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Wilhelm R\u00f6ntgen, Martin Luther, Hildegard von Bingen, Richard Wagner . . . \u00a0there is not enough space to keep adding to this list here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-761","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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